Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-12-22

Inc jury on OnarpS next trial Is eX
pected to ask itself what will be th,
good of convicting man like that.
Jacob Sharp's doctor says his patlen
has valvular disease Of the heart and
cannot live more than a twelvemonth
Old Fort Defancs, at Defiance, Ohio
one of the most important historic spots
in the State, is to be fixed up and beau.
titled.
A gang Of Mormon missionaries are
holding meetings in Washington @. II.
and the citizens are wreught up evel
the matter.
President Elliott, OF Harvard, is il
full accord with the Presidents recon-.
mendations- Pres. Bartlett, Of Dart
mouth isn't.
E. L. Sawyer.Secretary of the Duluth
Minn., Roller Mill Company, is report.
ed to have skipped with $4,000 Of tbs
firms money.
At meeting OF the Ohio State Grange
last week, at Canton, 79 counties were
represented. Business was conducted
with closed doors.
E, L. Harper, convict and ex-banker,
has donned the stripes at the Ohio peni-
tentiary, but will retain his mustache
and ha1r for time.
Joseph Knight, book. keeper of the
Philadelphia National Bank. has been
arrested, charged with stealing $66, 600
to SIC, 1000 from the bank
1t is probable that President Spencer,
Of the B. & o., will nominate VIM. NJ.
Clements and Thos. r. Sharp for the
vacant vice presidenciee.
Councilman H. Laybourne, Spring
field, IS msn of pote-the forged kind,
aggregating 81 200, for which his victims
are vainly seeking him.
The majority of North Dakota
against division Of the Territory Is ex-
actly 10000. In South Dakota the ma
jority for division Is 13,938.
E. L. Harper, the Fidelity Bank
swindler, in the Ohio Penitentiary, has
been assigned to the position as clerk
in the Office of the secretary.
AT years old daughter of Joseph
Able of Shawnee was attacked with fits
while returning from school Tuesday of
last week and died shortly afterwards.
Col. Boone heads a party of Zanes-
vile capitalists, who have just paid
S35, 900 for corner lot upon which to
erect safe deposit bank and opera
house.
In Ohio one hundred farmers insti-
tutes will be held next winter as part of
the commemoration of the one hun
dredth anniversary of the founding of
the State.
A Rochester confectioner has laid in
eleven tons of candy for his holiday
trade. What a vision Of smeared faces
and aching teeth and merry Christmas
that raises.
Mrs. Anna Smooth, OF GAINESVILLE, in
dicted on two counts for murder in the
first degree. has been released on $40, 600
bail. She is suspected of having killed
her four little children.
The 10Th annual session Of the North
western Ohio Teachers Association will
be held at Fostoria, on December 26,
q and %. The address of welcome will
be delivered by ex-Gov. Foster.
Cleveland is a rather sedate sort of
town, but when it comes to furnishing
a first-class church scandal it gets there
with both feet, as has been shown BY
the developments in the Hildreth trial.
Judge Phillips, of GAINESVILLE, has de-
cided that the estate of Thomas Griffith
is not liable for the debts Of the bank
ing firm of which he was a member
The bank failed three years ago for
S1S0,050.
The quarterly report Of the Western
Union shows surplus of $685., $685.,
which after paying II per cent diyi-
dend of lot, ,343.75, and $142,O50 for
bond interest, leaves net surplus Of
S7,604,5 ,575. The receipts were the large&
for any quarter.
The New Lisbon, East Liverpool &
Southern Railroad Company has been
at East Liverpool, o.. with
Daniel Crawford as President. 1t will |
build an extension Of the New York, |
Pennsylvania & Ohio road from East
Liverpool to New Lisbon.
The report of the Ohio Live Stock |
Commission says that during the past
year 1883 hogs died Of chalera in Pre- |
Die county, 500 in Gallis, 200 in Madi-
son, 20 in Morrow, $500 in Warren, Z, 900 |
IN Union, LIT in Seneca, 20,S67 in
Butler; total 4,747. During the year
IS horses have been killed for glanders. |